Social Media Single Sign On NO LONGER Required for New Accounts
Due to the large amount of spammers trying to register on the forums, I am making new registrations use Twitter, Facebook, or OpenID Single Sign-On to create new accounts. This might be only temporary as I hope to find a better way to combat spammers. (Deleted wrong post - this is a repost)
Social media NO LONGER required for account creation
Social media NO LONGER required for account creation
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Also, Daid: I've always rejected OpenID. I don't remember why, to be honest, just something about when it started, and I didn't like how it worked.
Over on the Armagetron forums (which are kind of a ghost town these days) we have a simple 10 posts to be able to post without approval, but the first 10 have to be approved, which require active moderators, and we haven't always been able to promise that. I still like that system, but only when there are active moderators. Once all your moderators become inactive, even if its only for a few days, the system breaks down.
Though hopefully I reminder is sent out once our accounts are approved?
Edit: oh okay there's a registration trouble email address. welp sorry I screwed up your announcement thread, you can delete this. how embarrassing...
And we did have a huge spam problem in the past, which is why accounts need to be approved.
For some reason I'm beginning to see a little bit of a LAN party revival. At least here in the US.
I just approved your account. Welcome to the forums.
I've tried on a few devices using different internet connections. It's kinda sad to see because if this site were running correctly and easy to access/register for (even if it took a day or two to get authorized) I have no doubt it would be much more popular.
I will either be doing an upgrade this week or switching to a new forum software. I'm not a big fan of the way the current Vanilla forum software works, so unless the newer versions are better I'm going to switch to something else. Either way I go, I will not be adding the social media logins.
I recently did an OS upgrade to the latest Debian Stable and can now run the latest stable PHP (although I'd like to switch to a NodeJS forum if possible).
Social media accounts are now longer required.
Awesome. For some reason I have two skins of this site. On my netbook, appears as normal on another device it's a blue layout. Go figure. Hopefully if I lose access again it'll be easier to register, so many thanks.
I look forward to the upgrade. In the mean time, I'll get back to figuring out how to get back into the groove of simming (not literaturely(?) used to do that).
I've upgraded the forums to the latest version about 30minutes or so ago. Might still do a migration to another forum software only if I can bring in data and user accounts.